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Beams of divine light breaking forth from several places of holy Scripture, as they…Beames of divine light breaking forth from severall places of holy Scripture, as they…
Beams of divine light breaking forth from several places of holy Scripture, as they were learnedly opened, in XXI. sermons. The III. first being the fore-going sermons to that treatise called The bruised-reed, preached on the precedent words. By the late reverend and judicious divine, Richard Sibs, D.D. Mr. of Katharine Hall in Camb: and sometimes preacher at Gray's Inn. Published according to the Doctor his own appointment subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect copies.Beames of divine light breaking forth from severall places of holy Scripture, as they were learnedly opened, in XXI. sermons. The III. first being the fore-going sermons to that treatise called The bruised-reed, preached on the precedent words. By the late reverend and iudicious divine, Richard Sibs, D.D. Mr. of Katharine Hall in Camb: and sometimes preacher at Grayes Inne. Published according to the Doctor his owne appointment subscribed with his hand; to prevent imperfect coppies.
London: printed by George for N. Bourne, 1639
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1As it is with a river, it carries all before it, till it discharge it self into the Ocean, where it is swallowed up: so it is with the desires of a Christian; they carry all in the mean time, between heaven and them in a stream, and never rest ••ll they be swallowed in heaven it self, and ••e second coming of Christ to finish […]s, and then is the period of all happiness, and •he accomplishment of all promises; when Christ shall come to be glorious in his Saints.
1As it is with a river, it carryes all before it, till it discharge it selfe into the Ocean, where it is swallowed up: so it is with the desires of a Christian; they carry all in the meane time, between heaven and them in a streame, and never rest ••ll they be swallowed in heaven it selfe, and ••e second comming of Christ to finish 〈…〉s, and then is the period of all happinesse, and •he accomplishment of all promises; when Christ shall come to be glorious in his Saints.
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The words they are (as it w•re) •n echo a• answer back again of the Bride, the Spouse of Christ, unto his promise of his coming, which he makes twice in this Chapter, in ver. 7. Behold I come quickly, and in ver. 12. Behold, I come quickly; and he comes not empty handed, My reward• is with me. Now the Church here echoes back again, Christ saith, I come, and the Spirit, and the Bride say, come. The words contain the most heavenly desire that can be, of the most excellent personage in this world, the Queen, the Bride of Christ; and it is a desire to the most excellent person absolutely, Christ himself, a desire of his coming; and it is stirred up by the most excellent Spirit, the holy Spirit of God: